Assistant Psychological Wellbeing Practitioner Jobs

As an Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner, you’ll be part of our valued Wiltshire Children’s Service. You will feel valued as an Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner within HCRG Care Group, receiving access to exclusive rewards and benefits including:

• A salary of £31,710.00 with access to our group pension
• Free tea, coffee and milk at your base location
• Membership of My Reward Hub, giving you access to discounts on every day purchases like grocery shopping as well as cashback and voucher offers for treats for you and those special to you
• Access to your wages as you earn them to help cover life’s emergencies and avoid overdraft fees or high interest rates
• Online and face to face help with your mental and physical wellbeing from healthy recipes and activity challenges through to post trauma support, legal, debt and life management help, as well career coaching and counselling
• Access to eLearning, bespoke career pathways and opportunities for continuing professional development through our Outstanding learning and development team, The Learning Enterprise
• An open, just culture where you’re encouraged to have and implement ideas which can help us deliver our purpose: changing lives through transforming health and care backed up by at least £100,000 of ringfenced innovation funding each year

HCRG Care Group Wiltshire Children and Young People’s emotional wellbeing service are currently seeking a passionate and experienced Emotional Wellbeing Practitioner to work in the team. You will provide support to children and young people who may be experiencing a range of issues, such as but not limited to anxiety, gender dysphoria, depression, family problems and self-harm. Support will be provided in person and/or remotely depending on the clients’ needs.

This role is part of the wider wellbeing team who offer early support such as group work and positive activities with the aim of preventing escalation to more specialist CAMHS services.

You will have an active caseload of children and young people within the getting help sphere of support and will use evidence-based therapeutic models. Low intensity, early interventions will be delivered in a range of settings and will include parental and family support.

Hold a case load of clients, delivering outcome-based interventions to support their wellbeing

Communicate effectively with a wide variety of professionals relevant to the role

Deliver therapeutic interventions to children and young people, working independently which may at times mean lone working

Undertake professional initial assessments of young people and formulate a plan for their treatment within the guidelines of the service

Provide ongoing (up to 10 weeks) and one-off counselling to young people

Support alternatives to one-to-one therapeutic work i.e., group work

Maintain confidential case notes and records in a timely manner ensuring that they are stored securely using the specified case management systems

Support outcome focused reporting of interventions

Develop links to other agencies and services and have a good understanding of local services for signposting and onward referrals

Positively manage risk and recognise and pro-actively respond to child protection and safeguarding issues escalating and referring as required

Undertake regular supervision in line with regulation guidance

Minimum level 4 Counselling Qualification

BACP Membership/Registration

Assessment, planning, formulation and evaluation of patients psychological difficulties

Good understanding of routine outcome measures

Application of evidence based psychological therapies relevant to clinical service

Knowledge and direct clinical experience of adapting interventions and delivering them to children

Experience of delivering and managing clinical risk

Previous experience supporting vulnerable Children

Ability to work autonomously but recognising the philosophy of effective integrated working

Ability to use word, powerpoint, email, excel and clinical systems Car driver and use of car

Clinical leadership experience

Experienced in innovative clinical practice

Other forms of therapeutic skills i.e. EMDR, Sand Tray

We change lives by transforming health and care.

Established in 2006, we are one of the UK’s leading independent providers of community health and care services, working with health and care commissioners and communities to transform services with a focus on experience, efficiency and improved outcomes. We deliver and transform adult and children community health services, primary care services including urgent care, sexual health, dermatology and MSK services as well as adult social care and wellbeing services. Across England, we support communities of many millions and directly help more than half a million people each year - guided by our simple values: we care, we think, we do.

We’re committed to equal opportunities and welcome applications from a broad, diverse range of people who want to join our team. We’re a Disability Confident Committed company, so we work to provide facilities, work environment adjustments and technical solutions to be as inclusive of everyone.

While it doesn’t happen often, sometimes a role is very popular, and we’ll need to close it earlier than the date we’ve shown here. If you’re keen to join our team, we’d love to hear from you so please apply as soon as you can.

As you’d expect, safeguarding and protecting the children, young people and vulnerable adults that we work with is of the utmost importance so we have policies and procedures in place to promote safeguarding and safer working practices and everyone who joins the team is subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks.

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